To me, this is not about Adidas or their Ku relationship. It's about Ku ethics. The fact that academics and boosters at that school somehow can justify doing this deal in spite of the evidence is appalling. The university and its supporters are seemingly soulless.
The school is facing five Level I allegations—the most severe the NCAA can hand down—related to men’s basketball. Among them are a lack of institutional control charge and a lack of head coach control charge that is aimed directly at Self. The NCAA also has a long list of aggravating factors in the case and a short list of mitigating factors, which means the potential penalties could skew to the high end of the NCAA penalty matrix.
Interim athletic director Kurt Watson ... has been the stopgap AD because Kansas fired the last AD, Jeff Long, after the Les Miles creepiness seeped out of LSU and led to his resignation in Lawrence. So the school has an interim AD, an interim football coach, a huge NCAA infractions case … but a basketball coach for life, baby. Sports Illustrated